The Mammoth Book of New Sherlock Holmes Adventures

Acknowledgments

Grateful acknowledgment is given to Dame Jean Conan Doyle for permission to use the Sherlock Holmes characters created by the late Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. My thanks also to Roger Johnson, Jon Lellenberg, Christopher Roden and R. Dixon Smith for their help and guidance during the preparation of this book, and to Richard Lancelyn Green for kindly providing the foreword. All of the stories in this volume are in copyright. The following acknowledgments are granted to the authors and their agents for permission to use their work.

"The Adventure of the Inertial Adjustor" © 1997 by Stephen Baxter. First publication, original to this anthology. Printed by permission of the author.

"The Adventure of the Amateur Mendicant Society" © 1996 by John Gregory Betancourt. This story has been revised. An earlier version appeared in Resurrected Holmes, edited by Marvin Kaye (New York: St Martin's Press, 1996). Printed by permission of the author.

"The Vanishing of the Atkinsons" © 1997 by Eric Brown. First publication, original to this anthology. Printed by permission of the author.

"The Adventure of the Fallen Star" © 1997 by Simon Clark First publication, original to this anthology. Printed by permission of the author and the author's agent International Scripts Ltd.

"The Adventure of the Persecuted Painter" © 1997 by Basil Copper. First publication, original to this anthology. Printed by permission of the author.

"The Adventure of the Touch of God" © 1997 by Peter Crowther. First publication, original to this anthology. Printed by permission of the author.

"The Darlington Substitution Scandal" © 1997 by David Stuart Davies. First publication, original to this anthology. Printed by permission of the author.

"The Legacy of Rachel Howells" 1994 by Michael Doyle. Originally distributed privately in a limited edition for The Stormy

Petrels of British Columbia, January 1994, and reprinted in Canadian Holmes, Autumn 1995. Reprinted by permission of the author.

"The Case of the Suicidal Lawyer" © 1997 by Martin Edwards. First publication, original to this anthology. Printed by permission of the author.

"The Adventure of the Bulgarian Diplomat" © 1997 by Zakaria Erzinçlioglu. First publication, original to this anthology. Printed by permission of the author.

"Foreword" © 1997 by Richard Lancelyn Green. First publication, original to this anthology. Printed by permission of the author.

"The Case of the Last Battle" 1997 by L.B. Greenwood. First publication, original to this anthology. Printed by permission of the author.

"The Case of the Incumbent Invalid" © 1997 by Claire Griffen. First publication, original to this anthology. Printed by permission of the author.

"The Adventure of Vittoria the Circus Belle" © 1997 by Edward D. Hoch. First publication, original to this anthology. Printed by permission of the author.

"The Adventure of the Grace Chalice" 1987 by Roger Johnson. Originally published in The Sherlock Holmes Journal, Winter 1987. Revised for publication in this anthology. Printed by permission of the author.

"The Adventure of the Suffering Ruler" 1983 by H.R.F Keating. First published in John Creasey's Crime Collection 1983

edited by Herbert Harris (London: Victor Gollancz, 1983). Reprinted by permission of the author and the author's agent Peters, Fraser & Dunlop.

"The Repulsive Story of the Red Leech" 1997 by David Langford. First publication, original to this anthology. Printed by permission of the author.

"The Enigma of the Warwickshire Vortex", 1997 by F Gwynplaine MacIntyre. First publication, original to this anthology. Printed by permission of the author.

"The Adventure of the Dorset Street Lodger" © 1997 by Michael Moorcock. First commercial publication, original to this anthology. Printed by permission of the author and the author's agent Curtis Brown Ltd.

"The Adventure of the Faithful Retainer" © 1997 by Amy Myers. First publication, original to this anthology. Printed by permission of the author and the author's agent, Dorian Literary Agency.

"The Mystery of the Addleton Curse" © 1997 by Barrie Roberts. First publication, original to this anthology. Printed by permission of the author and the author's agent Laurence Pollinger Ltd.

"The Adventure of the Suspect Servant" © 1997 by Barbara Roden. First publication, original to this anthology. Printed by permission of the author.

"The Adventure of the Silver Buckle" © 1997 by Denis 0. Smith. First publication, original to this anthology. Printed by permission of the author.

"The Case of the Sporting Squire" © 1997 by Guy N. Smith. First publication, original to this anthology. Printed by permission of the author.

"The Affray at the Kildare Street Club" © 1997 by Peter Tremayne. First publication, original to this anthology. Printed by permission of the author and the author's agent A.M. Heath & Co.

"The Adventure of the Parisian Gentleman" © 1997 by Robert Weinberg and Lois H. Gresh. First publication, original to this anthology. Printed by permission of the authors.

"The Bothersome Business of the Dutch Nativity" © 1997 by Derek Wilson. First publication, original to this anthology. Printed by permission of the author.